#I need to reread the silver eve volumes again…. The nuance there. Incredible. I’m not normal about it

[magpiesbones]

I’ve been thinking about how I’d section witch hat into arcs and I have a preliminary setup:

Volume 1-3: Introduction; you meet the characters, world, and main conflict.

Volume 4-5: Romonon arc; first conflict with Big Systematic forbidden magic. Also Richeh’s arc: the main conflict is whether it is valuable/worth it to study what came before you (cat man, Richeh can’t fight, Eunice’s preparations) and comes down definitively that it is.

Volume 6-8: Disability arc; not self-contained. Introduces the second main theme aside from education, which is Lack Of Access (to education and to other things). Starts off with beldaruit physically unable to access most of the city he lives in (sealchair too wide for the halls) and progresses onto qifrey (imminent visual impairments and social ostracism) and Tartah and Coustas who cannot access knowledge to improve their lives (medicine and magic).

Volume 9-[ongoing]: Justice arc; addresses who deserves to be able to access magic. Coustas? The knights? The king? The people? Begins to morph the question of deserving magic to the question of whether this is magic that deserves to be done, as in: is this magic something that improves a life, and can you trust everyone’s judgement on what does/doesn’t improve a life?

#anyways anyone who is more caught up/chapter reader is welcome to add to this or even if you’re not #I did think about pushing Access Arc into v9 just a bit for Coustas’ forbidden magic times but 8 feels like a turning point to me #witch hat atelier #tongari boushi no atelier #wha #tbna #witch hat #Also thought about clipping Justice to end on v11 bc THAT felt very turning point but 11 did also feel very self-contained (like 6) and #I haven’t read 12 yet so. hard to say! #anyways this has come out of me needing to talk about witch hat in a way that’s not volume by volume bc. I don’t remember that shit #I need to reread the silver eve volumes again…. The nuance there. Incredible. I’m not normal about it